On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:30:35 +0000, Arron Eicholz
<Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 27, 2010 9:30 AM Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> On 8/27/10 9:02 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug wrote:
>>> Well, if they increment the padding then they only do so for auto
>>> height, not when the height of the outer div is explicitly set to 100px.
>>
>> Ah, ok. That's interesting.... For an auto-height div, putting the scrollbar into
>> the padding is clearly the right behavior from the standpoint of authors.
>> Otherwise any overflow:auto block with horizontal overflow and auto height
>> would also be forced to have vertical overflow, right? So I think we should
>> make sure that the spec handles that case well.
> Thank you for your feedback. The CSSWG resolved not to make changes
> to the CSS 2.1 specification[1]. We will be reevaluating this issue
> for errata and future versions of CSS.
Øyvind and Boris, this issue is filed at
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15880
Cheers,
Anton Prowse
http://dev.moonhenge.net